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tmpfs: fix race between truncate and writepage

While running fsx on tmpfs with a memhog then swapoff, swapoff was hanging
(interruptibly), repeatedly failing to locate the owner of a 0xff entry in
the swap_map.

Although shmem_writepage() does abandon when it sees incoming page index
is beyond eof, there was still a window in which shmem_truncate_range()
could come in between writepage's dropping lock and updating swap_map,
find the half-completed swap_map entry, and in trying to free it,
leave it in a state that swap_shmem_alloc() could not correct.

Arguably a bug in __swap_duplicate()'s and swap_entry_free()'s handling
of the different cases, but easiest to fix by moving swap_shmem_alloc()
under cover of the lock.

More interesting than the bug: it's been there since 2.6.33, why could
I not see it with earlier kernels?  The mmotm of two weeks ago seems to
have some magic for generating races, this is just one of three I found.

With yesterday's git I first saw this in mainline, bisected in search of
that magic, but the easy reproducibility evaporated.  Oh well, fix the bug.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Hugh Dickins 2011-05-28 13:14:09 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 36947a7682
commit 826267cf1e

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@ -1114,8 +1114,8 @@ static int shmem_writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc)
delete_from_page_cache(page);
shmem_swp_set(info, entry, swap.val);
shmem_swp_unmap(entry);
spin_unlock(&info->lock);
swap_shmem_alloc(swap);
spin_unlock(&info->lock);
BUG_ON(page_mapped(page));
swap_writepage(page, wbc);
return 0;